The Sun. — London, England, 1838-08-24 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. How strangely the use of the simplest and plainest terms is sometimes perverted ! Bribery does not seem a term easily capable of two senses ; but the Tories, when it suits their purpose, have a wonderful knack at discoveries of the kind, and that which means giving money for a corrupt purpose, and nothing else when committed by a political adversary, becomes an innocent and disinterested piece of benevolence when committed by one of their own party. They look at objects with two different kinds of glasses— the largest magnifiers when they direct their sight to the conduct of their opponents—the most powerful diminishers when they inspect their own acts and deeds. That they are naturally short-sighted as regards themselves has been repeatedly proved of late years, and, what is unusual, as they grow older their vision does not appear to im prove. The Tories are now to the full as short-sighted as ever they were in their lives. They have much the same notion of bribery that Scapin had of thievery : when he stole from his master, he called it the fair perqui site of his place ; when others stole anything, he denounced it at once as flat burglary. Bribery is only bribery, ac cording to Tory interpretation, when it is employed against them. What is going on at Yarmouth affords a remarkable illustration of the ingenious manner in which the party " distinguish and divide" on this subject. A new writ having been moved for Yarmouth, and Mr. Wilshere having accepted the Chiltern Hundreds, upon some understand ing applicable to himself, Mr. Thomas Baring proceeded thither with all dispatch, professing not to expect any op position to his return, but resolved to be upon the alert, as he well knew that the great body of the electors were, and could be, no parties to any agreement made by third per sons to deprive them of the exercise of their rights. If the voters of a place were always to be bound by stipulations of which they knew nothing, but which had been entered into by others affecting to act on their behalf, it would be very easy for the Tories, by a little of the concert and contri vance at which they are such adepts, to disfranchise prac tically half the boroughs in the kingdom. Therefore, with out knowing exactly how the facts of the case stand, we cannot blame the Liberal electors of Yarmouth for being ready to assert their independence, if necessary. Mr. Thomas Baring seems not to have been in a hurry to show himself, but for some time lay perdue before he would face the inhabitants. He at length came from his hiding-place, and having collected his friends (though a few of his ene mies seem also to have managed to be present), he, and two other leading Tories resident in the borough, harangued "the multitude," as it is called, on Wednesd:y List, and had everything pretty much their own way. Here let us observe, that all the details, as in the instance of the late Sodbury dinner, are furnished to the Tory journals by " a correspondent," so that the speakers not only had every thing their own way at the meeting:, but in the news papers. The speeches are given in the- first person, and the "correspondent" of the Times seems to have been animated by the most commendable Con servative zeal. The character of the audience may be judged of from the topics addressed to them, as well as from the mode in which they were handled ; and Mr. Thomas Baring and his coadjutors did not fail to bestow abundant laudation upon the conduct of the freemen, the relics of the old corrupt corporation of Yarmou!h—those who, election after election, have been so accustomed to accept money for their votes that they thought themselves fiery hardly treated because some time -after the passing of the Reform Act an inquiry was set on foot, prosecutions were instituted, and convictions took place for Lribrry. " One gentleman (exclaimed Mr. T. Baring) was actually sent to Neagate !" Poor gentleman ! What a very i 1 - used gentleman he must have been ! A gentleman, a free man of Yarmouth, was " actually sent to Newgate ;" for bribery! Howev,r, as we have already observed, the Tories do cot look upon it in that odious light. The free mi.n of Yarmouth were paid two guinis each for their votes, and yet Mr. Thomas Baring, Mr. Lacon, and Mr. Browne, tile three speakers on the occasion, contend that it i= not brti,ery. " I ti.ink the freemen ought to have it, and I have always said so. I feel satisfied that the payment (f the mere Iwo guineas is no bribery." Certainly not, worthy Mr. Lacon : it is no brib:ry ; it is onl_, buying a man's suffrage ; but that is no bribery—on the Tory side. The " correspondent" states that " im»zense cheering, loud a n d long continued," foll ow ed this deciara'ion of the excellent Mr. Lacon's opinion, and we do not wonder at it. It must have been highly swisractory to his auditors, especially as it was a clear promise that the freemen of Yarmouth should be allowed at all events their two guineas, or as much more as they can get, in future. We see, therefore, precisely upon what terms Mr. Thomas Baring is to obtain his seat, if he succeed in his enterprise. The case of' Yarmouth was inquired into before, and we should n-It be surprised, atter what we have aliove quoted, if' it were to be inquired into again. The House of Commons may possibly not ar rive at the same conclusion on the question of bribery as Mr. Lacon, who (to qaote the title of a book bearing his name, though not of his penmanship) has said " much in a few words." Mr. Thomas Baring took great credit to himself for having done his utmost to preserve the freemen as they existed under the old rotten borough sys tem. Well might he do sa, since but for the preservation of them he would never have been able to show his face at Yarmouth. " Who," said lie, "at the time the Municipal Corporation Bill was introduced, supported the amendment, the object of which was to continue the existence of the freemen, but the Conservatives and myself?" This was pure Conservatism with a vengeance, and just the sort of Conservatism that gives a designation to the party to which Mr. T. Baring belongs. " Who," he added, " introduced the Bill the end of which would have bean the disfranchise ment of the whole of the freemen, but Lord John Russell ? Who supported it but the Whigs and Radicals ?" Thank 1-leaven they did support it ; but we should have thanked Heaven still more if, besides supporting it, they had carried it. The corrupt freemen of corpora tions, such as can be bought, like those at Yarmouth, for two guineas a-head, were the avowed objects of protection by the Conservatives, and it is upon them they rely in their contests for borough representation. But this is not bribery. Nothing like it. " I feel satisfied that the payment of the mere two guineas i 3 no bribery." Perhaps, then, Mr. Lacon will be good enough to tell us what it is. We cannot help thinking that it will be called bribery everywhere but in Yarmouth, and in places simi larly blessed with freemen whose existence the Tories have so disinterestedly preserved. " Ears polite" at Yarmouth will soon not know that there is such a word as " bribery" in our language : " In Cornwall people call a spade a spade : They must be very vulgar—folks in trade. For what were silken terms of more refinement made ?" In the latter portion of his speech Mr. Thomaa Baring adverted to the compact agreed to before the Election Committee, by which Mr. Wilshere could only bind him self, and by which he will, no doubt, be bound ; but if the voters of Yarmouth insist upon returning him again, and rejecting Mr. T. Baring for the second time, we do not know how he is to avoid the " honour thrust upon him." " If fate will have me King, why fate may crown me, Without my stirring;" • and certainly nobody can charge Mr. Wilshere, who is now upon the Continent, with at all " stirring in the business." The electors have an undoubted right to do as they like, and we are happy to learn that not a few even of the free men of Yarmouth have been so disgusted with the bare faced corruption of the Tories, that they are resolved to support any Liberal candidate who will present himself. Mr. Browne seems to be the great Conservative orator at Yarmouth, and he is reported to have made a wonderfully fine speech, all about Canada, " institutions sanctified by centuries of glory," " pinchbeck," Lord Ellenborough, " intestine broils," &c. In the midst of it somebody in the crowd irreverently told him "to shut his potato-trap ;" but he indignantly replied, in a tone, manner, and form of ex pression that must at once have silenced and ashamed the party guilty of the interruption, " Sir, my potato-trap shall open as often as it likes !" The oftener the better, we say, if it be worth while to bring farther ridicule upon Toryism. What chiefly s t r ik es us is the enormous depravity of the whole system by which Toryism is supported, the notorious and even vaunted bribery at Yarmouth being only a small part of it. Ridicule is not the weapon with which such political profligacy ought to be attacked and exposed. It requires the axe to be laid to the root, and not the pruning-knife to be appli e d to the branches.—Morning The astronomers, chemists, mineralogists, creologists, are talking, eating, drinking, and d anc i ng, with their accus annual zeal, the scene of th e i r di sp l ay being this year tomeS Newcastle-upon-Tyne. How far the interests of science are likely to be advanced by this p er i o di cal exhibition of feast i ng and lecturing is a problem which, with all our re spect for several of the professors at this philosophical sym posium, we a pprehend not one of them could solve: it may ver, that no great mischief is do ne be yona be t , hou°At ' i, perhaps, ought, eliciting of an occasional half -sarcastic ment from those smile of of astonisbm ont or amuse in have imaed that " Phil o soph l y" minded persons wh o was a grave and me ditative being , and b y no means given to dine on three c ourses or Once, certainly, Philosophy, ce itohwaltz like a tee-totu m. oug h never harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose," was a s omewhat staid though she afforded " a aid retired personage ; and " perpetual feast of nectared sweets, we suspect that the diet was ra ther less substantial and luxurious than the well.p as t nre d ven i so n of Alnwick , or the savoury g " wild-beef" o f Chilling-ham. Mais noes e avails char lout cell. " Di v i ne philosophy" has become of the earth , ea..thy. She a muses h erse lf w i t h a little botany, or a little . is scarcely ehern.gtry, or a little geo l og y, b u t the labour more than sufficient to create an appetite and give a zest to a sumptu o us dinner. W e d o not , h owel er , quarrel with ti:e,e ,‘ scientific" pursuits of our nipiern philosoplwrs— they ale, no doubt, pleasant enough, unless when a surfeit nowand then intervenes. They, moreover, collect toge ther a great number of people, who spend money, and are useful-to hotel-keepers and letters of lodgings ; they further diminish the alarm which the unlearned, whether of the higher or lower classes, whether aristocratic beaux and belles, or plodding tradesmen and their wives, have been apt to feel at the awful name of a philosopher. When Professor A. discusses with epicurean gout the beauty of the " Alderman's Walk" in a haunch of venison, or Professor 8., in a smart new suit built by Stulz, smirks and skips about just like " our honourable" cousin Jessamy,.they cease to be formidable abstractions to Lord C. or Lady D. ; nay, they are pronounced to be very diverting creatures in their way : we fear, however, that they also may create a suspicion that a considerable ac quaintance with geology or chemistry may be consistent with a very narrow intellect, and that even vast attainments in physic or zoology do not imply any extraordinary share of judgment or wisdon. Such a result might not be merely harmless ; it might be detrimental to the interests of science, by destroying the prestige hitherto attached to it, and, through decreased respect for its professors, tend to produce an indifference for the doctrines professed. Nor do we see, what at first might be expected, a reasonable chance of a diffusion of knowledge among the poorer classes by means of these periodical and numerous assemblages. On the contrary, the extravagantly expensive scale on which the whole arrangements are formed, and the system of luxurious feasting and aristocratical feting, preclude at once the access of all but the wealthy classes—of all classes, in fact, except such as on Sundays fleck to the gardens in Regent's Park to look on while ele phants feed and monkeys chatter. We confess that we think these meetings: are calculated to bring ridicule on philosophical pursuits, and to retard the progress of useful knowledge, which must be acquired by severe study, and not by flimsy lectures and desultory after-dinner con versations. Let young or old gentlemen, young or old ladies, augment their pleasures by mixing now and then " a little bit of mathematics and all that" with the last opera or the last novel ; but do not let grave Professors leave their respectable firesides and quiet libraries to play at astronomy, by admiring the superiority of the earthly ring lets of Lady Mary over the celestial locks of Berenice, or to show what a funny thing chemistry can be rendered, by making the Lord Johnny split his sides with laughter in breathing a whiff or two of nitric gas. There are plenty of strolling teachers of science, to say nothing of conjurors who can perform this work, and do it better. When Samp son went to the banquet to make sport for the fashionable Lords and Ladies of Gaza, he did not go a voluntary geest —he was dragged a prisoner to that degrading task.—Times. The law relative to deodands, imposed by Coroners' juries in cases of homicide arising from a want of due care for human life, not amounting to that degree of culpable negligence which constitutes the legal crime of man slaughter, requires some amendment. That it is a salutary power, if rightly exercised, with which the law has from ancient times invested coroners' juries, there can be no question. Too often, indeed, the deodand is merely nominal in cases where human life has been sacrificed by a neglect of those precautions which are obviously necessary for its security. In canes, for instance, of death resulting from accidents by stage coaches, steam vessels, railway', &c., it must be admitted that coroners' juries have, in general, been exceedingly lenient, and thereby deprived human life in a great measure of the protection which a due enforcement of the law of deodands would give to it. In many of those cases which are of daily occurrence, life is destroyed is consequence of a cupidity to which all hu mane considerations are sacrificed. Years ago we calicd public attention to this subject ; and we are quite sure if coroners' juries had been more careful in sifting the causes of death in cases of such accidents as we have alluded to, and had, more generally than they have done, imposed such deodands as would make those persons who can feel in no other way feel in their pockets for the negligent destruction of human li-c, we should not have had the melancholy task of rtco:ding so many of those fatalities in the conveyance of passengers by land and water as have appeared in our columns of late years. Not long ago we remarked upon the dreadful waste of life which takes place in North American steam navigation, and which the Journalists of the United States Republic have coolly estimated at 1,000 het annum. If the " march of science," like the march of war, is only to be measured by the carnage which it occasions, this ought to go on, and science, like an Indian warrior, should be honoured in proportion to the multitude of hairy scalps and other bloody trophies which she can exhibit. But if science" should only be known by the beneficence of her gifts to mankind, and the humanising effects of her triumphs, then it becomes of importance to devise all possible means—legislative and other means—of ex tracting all the good which can be obtained from sci entific discovery, and guarding human life against the consequences of that callous or unreflecting cupidity which but too frequently converts mechanical and other im provements into engines of destruction, and defiles the triumphs of science with human gore. Shocking and dis gustinc, is it to read in the American papers the details of steam-boat fatalities, which are almost always the result of a sordid economy, which sacrifices security to cheapness in the construction of the boilers and machinery of such ves sels, or; with the view of catching additional customers, subjects the machinery to a pressure which it is not con structed to sustain. Some very deplorable calamities have occurred from time to time in this country and in Scotland by steam-boat explosions, which, though rare, when com pared with the " scientific" exploits which help to thin the population of the " model-republic," would be still less fre quent than they have been if coroners' juries, in all cases where life has been lost in this way, took care to visit every instance of proved negligence with such a penalty, under the name of deodand, as might make those persons who are economical of every thing but human life reflect, that in neglecting what was due to the interests of humanity, they were neglecting what was due to their own. In a recent instance, where several lives were lost by an explo sion on board a steam-vessel in the Thames, and that, too, being the second instance on board the same vessel, we were glad to observe the pains and trouble which the coro ner's jury took to sift the matter to the bottom, and have before them all the information which they could obtain of the actual state of the vessel and its machinery. As, how ever, a higher tribunal is finally to determine the question of the deodand imposed by the jury, we abstain, at present, from going further into the merits of the case. In all in quiries of this sort where there is proved carelessness in the management and navigation of the vessel, or a defective state of its engines and machinery—or where it appears the latter have been constructed of in ferior materials—we are convinced that the levying of considerable deodands will have more effect in pre venting the recurrence of such calamities than cri minal prosecutions. We observe that in the case of the Victoria steam-vessel an attempt has been already made to impugn the correctness of the decision of the crorner's jury by the Edinburgh Evening Post, but for the reason which we have stated—viz., that the case is yet sub judice, we forbear to follow it into the particulars of the evidence. It will be recollected that about a year ago a deodand of 5001. was laid upon the Monarch steam-vessel, which by a collision with the Apollo occasioned a loss of life. It was reported that an application was made to Government to remit that fine, but we know not with what success. This reminds us of what we said in the beginning of this article, that the law as to deodands required some amendment. Though deodands originated in the superstition of a former age, civilisation may turn them to good account. At pre sent the deodand goes to the Crown, but to the family of the sufferer the law gives no compensation. Why should the Crown get what in justice the widow or the orphan should have ? If a man's limb is broken by the negligence of a stage-coach driver, or other public carrier, he may have compensation in damages by an action on the case ; but if his life be sacrified, his bereaved family have no com pensation. This requires reform. The deodand should be appropriated to the family of the slain. In that case it would operate by way of penalty on the party in fault, and as some alleviation of the calamities to those whom it places in mourning. —Morning Herald. The Ministerial hacks affect to believe that the course lately taken by the Conservatives with respect to the Government of Canada was one into which they were led by Lord Brougham, It is pretended that as they did not make any objection to the appointment of Lord Durham to the office of Governor, they are not only to be considered as having approved of that appointment at the outset, but as being inconsistent with themselves for dis approving of the conduct of the Governor, now that be has been shown to have done that for which he had no legal autho rity. This is very e xtravagant nonsense. The Conservatives carefully steered clear of any interference, or any Parlia mentary criticism, upon the appointment of Lord Dur ham. They knew their constitutional duty better than to interfere with that which was strictly an executive duty, of which Ministers had a right to bear the undivided re sponsibility. They agreed that a Governor should be sent with certain very strong and extensive powers for dealing reno principl e , S with we the peculiar circumstances of Canada, but they ofo r a g s ettoful make of their r m e o o n n s e sense r thean d constitu tional limitations they existed upon, i n any degree ' contingent upon the per son that the Crown mig h t ' t appoint to exercise the powers ignorance as Igsa a t to r e of the Canadian Le rni.g l i They left such unstates manl'ker. Hume and similarly ob sequious trimmers. But t the Conservativ e asleaders in tothe course lately taken by the `li: . is eiial leaders in the House of Lords, which the House of C:)nun os did not a dare to oppose—though they mean l y and w • at it—it is perfectly consistent with the viewsspandishly Prnei carped les laid down by &r Robert Peel when taking g , the lead, as he unque:tio -ably did, in makin g th e eeatia e Evrant,, - ine nts for the Provisional Government of Canada last Ja nuary. He then said that he would witl.h.ll notl;ing fie m _ - Lord Durham as Governor of Canada on account of any poli tical difference between them ; but he would not concede to him, because he would not concede to any person, one iota of power which was not necessary for the exigency of the case ; and he thought that it was debasiog and degrading the great question before the House to put forth the personal character of the individual, that it might guide the decision of the House. And he added, on the same occasion, that in so grave a matter—one which of all others was the most important that Parliament ever had to discuss, namely, the suspension of the Constitution of a great country—the personal character of the individual ap pointed to carry on the Government. sunk into absolute in significance compared with the constitutional question, Upon a precisely similar view have the Conservative leaders in the House of Lords acted. The pretence that hostility to Lord Durham had anything to do with the course taken by them, is not less stupid than it is malicious. They have acted upon those principles of constitutional jea lousy which ought to animate every free Briton, and which are but ill compensated for by an affec tation of confidence in the " liberal" propensities of this or that individual. As Sir Robert Peel said, they will not concede one iota of power to- any man, over the liberties or rights of his fellow-subjects, beyond what is necessary for the exigency of the case, and it would be monstrous to to suppose that, after having fully considered that exigency and awarded powers accordingly, it still remains necessary that a Governor should be allowed to act upon his abso lute will, in violation of the law, and in culpable neglect of the limitations of the power conceded to him. This is the true state of the case, and this will be remembered by the British people, in spite of the impudent extravagance of Min i sterial advocates, who pretend to extraordinary " li -berality," and manifest that liberality by endeavouring to set up one of the most depotic of their faction, as Lord- Paramount over the low.--illorning Post. The Tories, after mustering all their forces against the appropriation clause of the Tithe Bill, after pronouncing it to be nothing less than spoliation, robbery, and sacrilege, and these of the basest kind, now make its abandonment by Ministers the occasion of the most fearful abuse, the ground of charges the most grievous. They who, a short time since, denounced the Government, and the Liberal party who supported them, as sacrilegious persons and robbers both of God and man, as spoliators of the very worst class, and as enemies to Protestantism and Pro testants, because, forsooth, they proposed to appropriate the surplus revenues of the Church of England in Ire land (our readers will pardon this Hibernianism since it is a creation of the Church) to the legitimate' and most useful purpose of educating the people, are now vilifying them through their organs of the Press, as lovers of place rather than of consistency, of power rather than of principle, in consequence of their having withdrawn this part of their measure. But what tiiid not Tories do? What inconsistency, even while charging others with this offence, can be too monstrous for them? What mischief have they not attempted? \\That good have they ever effected, unless it were by acci dent, or as the result of uncontrollable necessity, which ne ces-ity they have not failed to plead in extenuation of their crime, when making confession of their sin, and expressing contrition for their guilt. In every work of mischief the Conservative party, as the Tories miscall themselves, act voluntarily ; but in any thing that is good, under compul sion alone. In every thin; opposed to the public good the Tories act upon " the voluntary principle," none so friendly to its operation as they ; but in every thing favourable and contributing to the public: advantage, the compulsory prin ciple alane recogrise I. But this by the way. Surely every candid mind must revolt at the monstrous incon sistency of the course pursued by the Torles in re ference to the Ministers and the appropriation clause. Without attempting to defend the Government, we venture to ask, " Are the Conservatives the party to upbraid Ministers? Are they, who have denounced the appropriation clause and its supporters—;vho have ob.-tructed them in every possible way—who have moved, not heaven and earth, indeed (for the form:r is not under Tory influence), but earth and hell, to effect thelr struction—are these, we ask, the men to reproach and condemn the Government for the abandonment of the appropriation principle ? That they would do so is not, indeed, too much to expect from their inconsistency ; nor can it excite our surprise to find that in this respect they have been true to themselves. But surely they might have left this work for other hands. The task they have de volved on themselves has, doubtless, been to them one of pleasure : but undoubtedly they would have been much better employed in learning the more difficult, but more useful lessons of consistency, prudence, and practical wis dom. They have been inconsistent, imprudent, and impo litic in this matter particularly, from first to last. The Conservatives, who represent themselves to be the only true Protestants, the only true friends to the Church Esta blishment of this country, have stoutly and perseveringly op:hist:4cl themselves to the appropriation clause, on the ground, forsooth, that that clause would be injurious Loth to Protestantism and the Church Establishment. But what is this but a virtual slander upon both ? What would Luther have said, had he heard it insinuated that the education of the people could possibly be otherwise than beneficial to the cause he espoused ? Would he not have denounced the insi nuation as an incipient libel upon Protestantism ? And would lie not have declared that education would be the most powful auxiliary in the work of reformation ? Nay, did lie not find, and has it not since been invariably found, that education must prepare the way for reformation ? that corruptions, and abuses, and errors fly before the light, and that the introduction of light is essential to the dispersion of darkness ? Undoubtedly the scriptural edu cation of the people of Ireland would prove the dawn of a bright and glorious day—the first beamings of an orb whose progressive light and power would disperse the darkness of that land, and give to its inhabitants liberty, and peace, and happiness. It is now the seat of darkness, and disquietude, and discomfort. But let the educaticin of the people be commenced on an adequate scale, and these would gradually disappear. If the Bible be the religion of Protes tants, what can be more desirable, more necessary to the esta blishment of Protestantism in Ireland than the general qua lification of the people for its perusal ? Teach the popula tion to read, and then you may put into their hands the authorised version of the Scriptures. Until the former is done, the latter will be of no avail, and thus the very spring and source of Protestantism is closed to the people. What, then, could be a more legitimate, appropriate, desirable, or effective mode of disposing of the surplus revenues of the Church than that proposed ? The very fountain of Protes tantism would thus be opened to our Irish brethren, and its pure streams would flow tranquilly and copiously through the length and breadth of the land, producing moral verdure and fertility where now all is parched, and sterile, and unproductive. The revenues of the Church in Ireland are raised, ostensibly at least, for the purpose of instructing the people in Protestantism. What can more effectually promote that object than the preliminary and preparatory course proposed ? The ability to read is necessary to the pe rusal of the Bible, whence springs the religion of Protestants, and it is eminently calculated to render the preaching of it acceptable and useful. Unless, therefore, we have miscon ceived and misrepresented Protestantism—unless we have misunderstood the purpose for which the revenues of the Church are raised, the education of the people of Ireland by the means proposed must be beneficial to the former in a very eminent degree, and perfectly compatible with the latter, and, therefore, the opposition of the Conservatives, the boasted friends of Protestantism and the Church Es tablishment, to this coarse, must be monstrously. inconsis tent and disgraceftil. 'lf, however, we have slandered the Church, and misrepresented her ministers, by taking it for granted that her revenues are designed, not simply and alone fur the maintenance, and use, and benefit of the clergy, but for the instruction of the people, and the propa gation of true religion, we must confess that the Tories have acted consistently in opposing the appropriation clause, and humbly beg pardon for charging them with doing the contrary. But the true friends of the Church would, we ex pect, have charged us with misrepresentation and injustice, had we even insinuated that her clergy were so selfish, and mercenary, and unworthy of their office as to regard her reve nues as intended only, or even dhiefly,fortheir personal bene fit. The Catholics might also have interposed, and declared that their ministers had a higher claim, and could prefer a better title. They would have contended that if the personal benefit of the clergy had been originally contemplated, and not the instruction of the people in the Christian religion, the clergy of the Church of Rome, who had possession, ought never to have been deprived of them, and ought even now to have them restored. Had any but the friends (so called) of the Church declared that the education of the people would be an object unworthy of the appropriation of her surplus revenues, or that such an appropriation would be injurious to the Church, and beneficial to Catho licism, these same individual friends to the Church would have denounced the assertion as slanderous and unchris tian. If it be said that the clergy are doing all t h at i s necessary in the way of instructing the population of Ire land, and that thus the revenues of the Church are already applied to their legitimate purposes, we reply, that the re venues affected by the appropriation clause are surplus re venues. And we are bound to inquire, and the friends of the Church arc bound satisfactorily to answer the inquiry— how it happens that ignorance, superstition, and Catholi cism are so preva'ent ?—how it occurs that the whole country is made to lino - with the protestations of the frie n ds of the Church of the ring increase of Popery, an d w i t h their gloomy forebodings of the appalling and overwhelming results, unless the rapidly swelling and impetuous torrent he not iinmediately resisted ?—illorning Advertiser. SUDDEN DEA Tll.—As Mr. Smith, a partner in the old firm of Smith and Ingh!, paper-manufacturer=, TtirostlereA, near Manchester, was walking out of the club. room, in M anc h ester , on M on d a y l as t, he fell dawn and ex pired without a groan. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1838. EXPORTATION OF COLONIAL SUGAR. We find it announced in the Commerce, :hat the Superior Council of Commerce assembled on Saturday, under the pre sidency of the Minister of Commerce, to deliberate on the question whether the direct exportation of colonial sugar to foreign countries should be permitted, and whether, in the event of the question being resolved in the affirmative, such permission can be granted by the Royal Ordonnance during the Parliamentary recess. These questions had been taken into consideration in order to satisfy the delegates of , the French colonies, and to devise some remedy for the distressed state of the maritime trade of France, on which subject com plaints are constantly forwarded to the Minister of Commerce from the Commercial Chambers of the French sea-ports. On the same subject this journal says that the merchants, colo nists, shipowners, &c., of Marseilles, interested in the relations between France and her colonies, held a meeting on Tuesday last, to name a Committee, to act in concert with other Com mittees appointed in other ports of France, for the purpose of obtaining a reform of the legislation which regulates the importation of colonial sugar, and the production of native sugar. We find by the Journal du Havre that the Mem bers of the Chamber of Commerce of that town have ad dressed a letter to the Minister of Commerce, repre senting that a further fall in the prices of colonial sugars has taken place, with a tendency the limits of, which it would, they observe, be difficult to fix. The sugar, which in May was quoted at from 57f. 50c. to 58f., is now fallen to 54f. or 54f. 50c., these prices being those o good fourths, and that a great quantity of other sugars are selling at lower prices. They observe that this circumstance is the more worthy of notice, because the beet-root crop of last year in Ffance is already converted into sugar, and is actually in con sumption, so that some time will necessarily elapse before the sugar of the new crop can appear in the market. They then proceed to say—." This is not a state of things likely to pass away, or the result of accidental circumstances, which by their nature are not likely to occur again. It is the effect of a pro gressive march of things which does not appear ready to stop, for the coming crop of beet-root will itself be able to sup ply the whole consumption of France. The sugar of the colonies will, therefore, find itself excluded from the market by this fact ; and the ruin of those establish ments, bringing in its train the destruction of our maritime commerce, our navigation, our fisheries, our agriculture, and our manufactures, will be the necessary consequence. We shall never cease from repeating that the only method of pre venting such imminent danger consists in putting upon a per fect footing of equality, as far as duties are concerned, the two descriptions of sugar, native and colonial—every other measure will only be a fatal expedient." They add that the little suc cess which has hitherto attended the efforts of the maritime commercial interests to induce Government to come forward for the assistance of the colonies, does not induce them to ex pect that their present observations will have much influence ; but that they should be wanting in their duties if they did not again point out the deplorable results of the present system. —Galignani's Messenger. AGITATION IN IRELAND.—NO one, we suppose, will affect surprise at the recommencement of a vigorous agita tion in Ireland. We have only, however, heard the first blast of the storm. We refer to the meeting at the Corn Exchange, on Saturday, to the Anti-Tithe Assembly in Tipperary, and the Anti-Poor Law Meeting in Mayo. With regard to the Poor-law, we foresee a strong opposition, and Mr. Nicholls must be a very energetic and a very fortunate man to make a (lean job of it. —Dublin Evening Post. EXTRAORDINARY HAUL OF HERRINGS.—The following was the catch, in the course of four nights last week, made by an Avoch boat at Staxigos, commanded by Donald Macclennan, and fishing for Mr. Alex. Bain of the latter. place : —Tuesday, 331 trans; Wednesday, 64 ditto; Thurs thy, 71 2-3 ditto; Friday, no boats out ; Saturday, 31 2-3 ditto; total, 200.÷ ditto. The above take is, we believe, quite unprecedented in this or is any other country, and we chal lenge any station to produce a similar success to this. The extraordinary quantity of ninety-three and one-half trans of herrings was delivered in one morning by a boat in Pulteney town last week; and, while on this subject, we may add, that we have heard of another belonging to this place, which, on the morning of the great fishing of Wednesday se'nnight, caught no less than one hundred and twenty-five trans-- twenty of which he give up while in the nets to another boat, aryl fifteen of which were shaken into the sea—thus taking on shore ninety crans. —John o' Groat Journal. • A SINGULAR CC—PA RTNERY.—A few weeks ago, a servant of Mr. Gibson, of Gilchristland, on going over his master's farm, discovered a pheasant's nest ; and, by accident, having approached too near, the hen shyed and fled. On look ing into the nest, he was not a little astonished to observe that the contents consisted of 11 partridge and 5 pheasant eggs. After the lapse of a few days, he had again occasion to pass the same spot ; and, his curiosity being somewhat excited, he stole a cautious peep at the nest, and there observed a hen partridge upon the eggs. On his next visit he found the pheasant occupying her former situation. On several subse quent visits he found the same alternate changes. He com municated this fact to Mr. Wright, gamekeeper, who studi ously watched this procedure to the issue, and who was him self an eye-witness of this singular co-partnery, during four or five visits that he made to this respectable firm. After the term of incubation had passed, each brood took off its "several way" —the pheasant having only three live stock at her foot, the partridge eight. It would appear, however, that they have not made a decisive dissolution of partnership, as they have been seen frequently in each other's society since.—Dumfries Times. THE WEATHER.—We regret to state, that the hopes of settled fair weather, which the improvement of last week had pretty generally inspired, have been blighted by a return, since Monday morning, of the ungenial and boisterous winds which have prevailed during the greater part of the summer, attended by a depressed state of the barometer, and some quantity of rain. Altogether, the prospects of the har vest in the northern part of the island are very gloomy. We are glad to find, however, that, in the south-eastern counties, a considerable quantity of corn has been reaped and carried; and this fact has had considerable influence on the corn market, both in London and Liverpool, where, as will be seen from our repocs, wheat declined about Ss. per quarter on Monday and yesterday. —Manchester Guardian THE RIVER.—On Wednesday the weather was ex ceedingly boisterous; it blew a gale from the westward, and several heavy showers of rain fell during the day. The river was in a state of confusion all day, several tiers of vessels got adrift, and the collisions with each other did great mischief. A light collier got ashore on the hard-land just below Erith, and it will require several days' exertions to get her off. The Topaz, a Gravesend steamer, coming up in the afternoon with her passengers, was put by by several sailing barges and craft, and got athwart the tier of colliers at Limehouse Hole, where come damage was done. The Topaz was detained two hours before she was enabled to proceed to Fresh Wharf, where all her passengers were safely landed. The detention was quite unavoidable. The Magnet steamer, Captain Stock, which left London Bridge at twelve o'clock for Boulogne, with 300 passengers, amidst a storm of wind and rain, was seen four hours afterwards near the Nore weathering the gale in fine style. She has a most valuable cargo. SHOOTING QUARTERS—The demand for shoot ing quarters in the North has been greater this year than for a long period ; and the greatest bustle prevails among the glens, moors, and mountains. The grounds at Lubcroy are taken by Mr. Gisborne, M. P. ; Lord Francis Egerton is daily ex pected at Aultnaharrow, where he has a fine shooting cottage, embosomed among birch trees, on a bank overlooking Loch Shin ; Major Towers has engaged Strathnaver for the pursuit of his favourite amusement of deer stalking; Lord Ward has taken the shootings at Bighouse, in the north-eastern ex tremity of Sutherland ; Lord William Bentinck has engaged Ousdale, on the property of Mr. Horne of Langwell, near the wild mountain range called the Ord of Caithness ; at Achin toul, Mr. M‘Neill, yr. of Colonsay, and Robert and Algerine Greville, Esquires, have pitched their quarters; Mr. Meredith is at Torrish, parish of Kildonan ; Colonel Cartwright and party are at Braemore, in Caithness, &c. It is generally acknow ledged that the birds arc small, owing to the severity of the spring, but they are not scarce, and good sport is anticipated. —lnverness Courier. _ _ POTATOES.—On the mosses and low lands near Kendal, great quantities of potatoes have been under water fer some time past, and will be irrecoverably lost. On Satur day morning last, a field of potatoes near Mr. Webster's marble mills, on the margin of the river Kent, was six feet under water !—Lancaster Guardian. CURIOUS ANCIENT GRAVES.—III a small field at the back of Graham-street, the property of Mr. Laing, Lau. rieston, five or six ancient stone coffins have been discovered in the course of cutting some drains. They are without bot toms, and only in one was there any appearance of a cover. The sides are formed of six or eight pieces of flagstone un dressed, and stuck edgeways in the soil. It is remarkable that not a single bone has been met with in these coffins, the interior being filled with clay and earth. In explanation of this singular fact, it may be observed that they are covered only by a thin stratum of vegetable soil, not much exceeding a foot in thickness, through which the rains would penetrate, and of course accelerate the process of decomposition. The subsoil is a yellow clay, in which the graves had been dug ; but it is observed that part of the clay within the coffins has a blue colour and an altered appearance, which may possibly arise from the incorporation of animal matter with it. The rudeness of the graves indicates great antiquity ; but their re gular position, with the feet to the east and head to the west, shows that they belong to Christian times.—Scotsman. Last week as a locomotive e ngine was travelling on the railway from Garforth to Selby with a train of coal waggons, when near Milford it came in contact with some stone drags used in repa irin g the embankment, which threw the engine and tender off the road, overturned it, and shattered some of the waggons. The engine-man, James Bird, was dreadfully mangled, and killed on the spot, but a boy who was with him escaped unhurt. An inquest was h e ld on the body at th e Swan inn, b y Mr. Wood, of York ' • and as the jury thought t hat the accident was caused by the neAi_ gence of the c om pany's servants, a deodand was levied on the engine of 501., and a verdictcf " Accid en t a l D eat h" returned. D O MESTIC SERVANTS.—It appears from an ar ticle in the London and IVeqminster Review, that at the last census, the number of this useful class iii the United Kingdom wns _Females, 923,646; men and bp) s, 211,966 ; total, 1,135,612. GROSS ASSAULT.—A fellow named Fitzaerai 1 wa s on Wednesday committed to the House of Correction fur six wee k s , in defaa:t of paying a fine of 31., inflietA by the ma gis!ratcs of Hatton Garden, for having grossly assail.ed and taken indecent liberties with two respectable fern Iles who w; e passing along Holborn about eight o'clock on the previous evening. .ENCE LAW COURT OF CHANCERY, AUGUST 23. The Lou , CiT >NCELLOh hea7l - the•Hitowing cases to-day' at his huuse in Bruton-street. - ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. MANCHESTER AND LEEDS RAILWAY COMPANY. This was an appeal from an order of the Vice-Chancellor, whereby his Honour dismissed an information filed for the pur pose of abating an alleged nuisance. The Company had ob tained permission under an Act of Parliament to build a bridge or viaduct over Kirkgate-street, in the town of Wake field, of a specified height, on condition that the then width of the street should be maintained. The complaint made by the information was, that the width of the street had been con tracted by the erection of the piers to support the viaduct which was to be constructed, which formed a nuisance detri mental to the inhabitants of the town of Wakefield, and to all her Majesty's subjects passing through the place. The information concluded by praying an injunction to re strain further proceeding with the work ; and, also, to abate the nuisance by mandatory injunction as far as it at present existed. Mr. WAKEFIELD, Mr. JACOB, and Mr. BETHELL appeared for the Crown, and contended that the Act of Parliament was express, and must be complied with. The former width of the street had been thirty-four feet, and it was now reduced to thirty. It was impossible to say this was not an injury to the town, and a nuisance to the inhabitants. The Vice- Chancellor had said that the injury was too trifling to be re garded ; and though the strict letter of the Act had been violated, the road and also the footpaths were equally com modious as before. It had been suggested that a remedy might be had by indictment, but the Act itself had defined the nuisance, and the greater or less amount of injury would not determine the Court. _ Mr. K. BRUCE and Mr. BACON, on the part of the Company, stated that there had been long acquiescence on the part of the inhabitants of Wakefield, and also by the Commissioners appointed under a local act to preserve the road and footways of the town. The works had been proceeding ever since April, and were open to the inspection of all respectable persons. The Company were of opinion they had a legal right to pro ceed as they had done, and they were ready to try the ques tion in a court of law. The LORD CHANCELLOR intimated, that if the Company would accede to the terms he should propose, he would not interfere by injunction. He thought the best course would be that an action should be brought against one of the rela tors for pulling down the erections made by the Company, and that the fact should be admitted in order to try the question. If then the Company would undertake to remove all buildings on or over any part of the street, or otherwise to deal with them as the Court should direct after trial of the legal right, he would not grant any injunction to restrain their proceedings. Mr. K. BRUCE, for the Company, submitted to these terms, and it was then agreed the action should be tried in London— such an action to be brought in the Court of Queen's Bench as would raise the disputed points. RANGER V. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. ......- _ The LORD CHANCELLOR, at half-past five, adjourned this case until to-morrow. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. WESTERN CIRCUIT, BRISTOL, AuG. 22. STAITE AND ASH V. WEBB, REPRESENTATIVE OF THE BRISTOL STEAM TOWING COMPANY. • Mr. Erle, with whom was Mr. Butt and Mr. Marshman, appeared for the plaintiffs ; Mr. Serjeant Bompas, Mr. Crow der, and Air. Stone were counsel for the defendant. It appeared that the plaintiffs are iron merchants in Bristcl, and the defendant a partner in the Steam Tug Towing Com pany. In March last, the plaintiffs had a cargo of iron coming from Cardiff in the smack Charles, which, on ber voyage from Cardiff to Bristol, ran ashore in Chewstoke Bay, lost her rud der, and became very leaky. The plaintiffs being informed of this circumstance hired the *Lioness steam tug-boat, for the sum of 5/., to go down and bring her up. The Lioness went down accordingly, and took the Charles in tow. Coming up she took two other vessels, the Friends and the Szvfft, also in tow. Having entered the Bristol River, when opposite a part called the Powder-house, the Charles was run upon a rock, about 25 yards from the Powder-house, and sank immediately, and but for the timely cutting of the ropes the steamer would have sunk with lin.. Immediately upon this occurring the plaintiffs gave the defendant notice that they should hold them respon sible for the damage, which was estimated at 3/. per ton for the iron, making 1211., and 741. expenses incurred in raising the vessel, for which amounts the plaintiffs claimed. Witnesses were called who proved the hiring of the Lioness, and that she had taken too many vessels in tow ; also, that when she got into the particular eddy of the tide which sets in at the Powder-house, the Captain of the Lioness ordered them to port the helm, which brought the Charles nearer the shore, and she immediately struck on the rock and sank. Mr. Serjeant BosaPAs, for the defendant, contended that no n-gligence or want of proper skill had been shown ; the Lioness had taken the other vessels in tow for the purpose of causing her to steer better with the Charles, which having no rudder was unmanageable, and, in point of fact, they were in the habit of towing several vessels, being capable of towing vessels of five or six hundred tons burden, whole those she had then ih tow were not of one hundred tons burden. The fact was that the Charles being unmanageable, when they came opposite the Powder-house the eddy tide ran so strong that, notwithstanding the steamer immediately reversed her engines, the accident, as the Captain said, was unavoidable, and to pre vent the Swift running into them astern, the Captain cast off her tow rope, and ordered her to put her helm hard a-port, in crder that she might sheer off. The Charles having broken by the force of the tide the tow-rope with which she was lashed to the steamer, sheered her bow off and ran upon the rock and almost instantly sank. As regarded the iron, he contended that it had been damaged by the salt water in Sand-bay, where the Charles ran ashore and became leaky. Several witnesses were called in support of this view of the case. Mr. ERLE having replied, and the Learned Judge summed up, The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiffs —damages 1451. 12s. 3d.-355. per ton damage to the iron, and 741., the cost of raising the vessel. CORMACK AND ANOTIIER V. WEBB. —SPECIAL JURY. This was a similar action to the last, only brought by the owners cf the Charles to recover compensation for the loss of the vessel. The Learned Counsel went at great length into an argument as to whether the plaintiffs could sue, as there had been a special contract with Stake and Ash and the proprie tors of the Lioness, and no contract with them, and it was at last settled that without calling evidence, a verdict should be returned for the plaintiffs on the second count, with leave for the defendants to move for a nonsuit. BARKER V. SMITH. This was an action brough by a tenant against his landlord for an illegal distraint ; the facts proved that the tenant had been removing his furniture by night, and the landlord having consequently distrained upon th e r ubbish left in the house , which was appraised at IL 155., finding that the tenant had left the house open without any occupant, put a padlock on the door to preserve the grates and other fixtures. The Learned JUDGE said it was a most trumpery action, but however, as the landlord could not (under the pleadings) be justified in putting the padlock on the house, he should direct a verdict of Is. damages, and he regretted he could not certify against the costs. RICKETS V. FROST. This was a complicated action of debt which was disputed and set-off; unlike most cases of this nature, all attempts to allow it to be settled by arbitration were obstinately refused, and at twelve o'clock at night, when the Court adjourned, the witnesses for the plaintiff were still being examined. CRIMINAL COURT-THURSDAY. FORGERY. George B. Rogers (remanded from last Session) was in dicted for uttering a forged acceptance to a bill of exchange for 501., with intent to defraud Mr. John Dawson. The report of this trial appeared in our columns yesterday. Mr. Justice BOSANQUET summed up at great length, re capitulating the whole of the evidence; and the jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict of " Guilty of uttering a forged bill of exchange, knowing it to be forged." The prisoner was well attired in a black suit, partly resem bling a clerical dress, and partly that of the Society of Friends. THE ATTEMPTED MURDIa AND ROBBERY IN KENSINGTON FIELDS.—John Brown, alias Speechley, 20, described as a labourer, was indicted for feloniously shooting at James Gale, sen., Esq., with a loaded pistol, with intent to kill him. In other counts he was charged with intent to maim and do bodily harm, and to rob the prosecutor. Mr. James Gale, sen., stated that he was a half pay Lieutenant in the army, and resided at Notting-hill, Kensing ton. On Saturday, the 21st of July, I went out to walk with my children, a boy and a girl. I turned into a lane from Cam den-road, and when in an angle of the lane, as I raised my head from one of the children, I saw the prisoner standing with his face to me. His arms were at first down, but he raised them, and presented at arm's length two pistols at me, exclaim ing " Your money !" I put the children aside to prevent in jury to them, and then said to the prisoner, " Money, indeed I not I," and, suddenly thrusting his arms asunder, I sprung upon him. I then felt a ball, fired from the pistol in his left hand, strike me on the upper part of the thigh. Upon Ow: ing with the prisoner I received a tremendous blow. wrested the loaded pistol from the prisoner's right hand, al 4 presented it at him as he tore away from me. I pulled the trigger at him, but the pan merely flashed. When the pri soner ran away I called out " Stop him ! stop him and he was secured shortly after. When searched there were found upon the prisoner bullets, ?cm der, a phial containing more powder, and a formidable bludgeon. The ball caused a wound on my thigh. It had struck the coin in my purse, which con tained sovereigns on the one side and silver on the other. The Jury pronounced a verdict of Guilty. Mr. BODKIN observed there was another indictment against the prisoner for a robbery on Eleanor Auterac, and stealing an eye-glass and chain, value 2/., her property, two days prior to the attack on Mr. Gale, and near the same spot. The Learned JUDGE said that aft. r the conviction there was no occasion to proceed with it. Their Lordship§ retired at half-past five o'clock, and were . succeeded by t..l:e Recorder, before whom the trials proceeded up to nine o'clock. Several unimportant cases were ied. blt EIZS. —Myers, the su'gcon, did not ~ urreli!or ()wing the day. It is understood that he hill abide the fi.iding of the Grand Jury. NEW COURT. A LOTUARIO.-Thomas Anderson, aged thirty-eight, was indicted for stealing fifty sovereigns, the pr:Torty of Rebecca Kenyon. The proseewrix sated that she resided at No. 37, Sout!l Molton-street. She had known the prisoaer for nine cr tea months, and on the 6th of June, when the robbery was com mitted, she was about to be married to him. They met by anpointm , nt f , r poling, of froiog out to rurehas,. frrnt t/arn, a:d she nns%,erea tli t sne had twenty sovereigns and 30/• in notes. The prisoner then suggested that it would be better to change the notes for sovereigns, and they went to the Bank for that purpose, and obtained gold. Soon afterwards the prisoner got the 501. in his possession, and slipped away from her, and she did not see him again till he was taken into custody. The COMMON SERGEANT thought the prosecutrix should have made some inquiry regarding the prisoner before she eon s nitNl to marry him. The Prosecutrix was sorry to say that she relied too much upon his respectable appearance and plausible tales. Prisoner—lt's all very true that the prosecutrix has said; but she had been acquainted with me ten months, and she knows very well she gave me the money. COMMON SERGEANT—WeII, but where is it now—that's the question? Prisoner—l'll explain, my Lord. She wanted very muc h to get married to me as soon as possible, but I was in no hurry— Prosecutrix—That's not true. He got me out of my situation. Prisoner—The family were going to the Continent, and she gave notice, my Lord, and left of her own accord. COMMON SERGEANT—Yes, to marry you. Why did you steal the money ? Prisoner (pretending to be surprised at the question—Stole it Why, my Lord, she consented to wai t awhile before we got married, and gave me the money to take care of.—( Laughter.) The Jury, without hesitation, returned a verdict of Guilty , The COMMON SERGEANT—Now let us see the other woman' whom the prisoner is said to have got 1701. from. Elizabeth Potts got into the box, and stated that the pr fr sonar had induced her to leave her place to be married to him , when he got 1701. from her in a similar way to that mentioned by Rebecca Kenyon. The Learned JoDGE desired the prisoner to be called up for judgment, and observed that he was the most infamou s fellow he had ever tried. The sentence of the Court was' that he be transported beyond the seas for the term of seven years. '"`,Mr. PHILLIPS made an application to the Court to allow 1 prisoner, who had pleaded guilty, to be confined in Newgate instead of the House of Correction. The order was accordingly made. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. Mr. Waddell, of the house of Waddell and Co., ship" brokers, attended at the Justice-room in consequence of a representation which was made to the LORD MAYOR, by a wan of the name of Allen and his wife, who were a short time agl about to emigrate to South Australia, but were disappointe u on account of the illness of their child, and subjected to seria l° pecuniary loss in consequence of the circumstances attending' that disappointment. The case of Allen and his wife, as well as our Reporter W 53 able to collect from their exceedingly rambling and irregular statement, was as follows : fa consequence of the favourable prospects held out to emigrants to South Australia, Allen, who was a shoemak er at Portsmouth, determined to take out his wife and infant child to that Colony. The Emigration Commissioners CO" sented to give a free passage to his sister, who was qualified to assist him in his trade ; and having made the necessary prepa; rations and p a id 351. p assage - mone y t o M essrs . W a ddell an Co., who chartered the ship Rajasthan for the voyage, s ent A considerable quantity of their goods, which consisted of slieFt leather, clothes, & c ., on b oar d. Th e vesse l was fill e d with men, women, and children ; and tho- surgeon discovered that Allen's child was affected with the hooping-cough, on whi ch account an order was given that the mother and child should quit her immediately. At Gravesend Allen, who did not like to be separated from his wife and child, proposed to give u P his own and his wife's places upon repayment of the passage money, but the proposition was rejected, and the vessel pro ceeded to Plymouth, from whence it was to sail direct for i ts destination. At Plymnuth his efforts to get back the passage money having proved abortive, he and his sister who had on board after his wife and child had been obliged to quit the ship, came ashore, and the vessel sailed with the greater Pa rt of his goods, leaving him and his family in a most deplorable condition. His sister at the same time had the mortification t° lose her free passage, for she could not think of going to a dis tant and strange country without something like protection. Mr. Waddell declared that a great part of the inconvenienc e to which Allen had been subjected, had arisen from the wan: own obstinacy and ill-conduct ; and Mr. W. then made statement in corroboration of his assertion. After a good dl of assertion and contradiction on both sides, Mr. N IT * said, " I will most readily pay for Mrs. Allen, and I shall us all my influence to get a free passage for the sister, who viii probably be desirous of going out." The LORD MAYOR. —Very well. That is an excellent b!- ginning. I would now recommend Allen to write to the Ea *. gration Commissioners a brief statement of his ease, and a quest for a free passage, and I think that the solicitation will not be unavailing. Mr. Waddell, lam bound to say, has came to a very humane determination, and I am persuaded that $° praiseworthy example will be followed. HAT7'ON-GARDEN. A DESPERATE RUFFIAN. —A most determined looking fel low, named Horn, was charged with the following outtlig e " s conduct:— Police Constable No. 60 E, sa id, t h at on Wednes d a Y after noon, he saw the prisoner begging in Russell-square,him aline; grossly insult several ladies, who refused to give Witness followed him into Woburn-place, where he collared him, when the defendant turned upon him, and, after hitting him severely, threw him dotsn, threatening to stab him t° the heart heart it he did nut act him go. By this time Mr. the inspector, fortunately arrived, and saved him from further injury. witnes s Mr. Ran ley, on being sworn, stated that the above wt was in great danger of his life when he came up. The Prlsr e ner behaved in the most outrageous manner, declaring that and would commit murder, and be killed himself, before he we tl ea be taken to the station-house. It eventually required ten ni a .. to remove him to the latter place. The soles of the defe r ant's boots were plated with iron, and the kicks which he 1 4 Meted on the men engaged in capturing him were of the ro° dangerous kind. Mr. WITHAM asked the defendant how he obtained. living ? He said he had been at work on the railroad, and. was toxicated when he was taken into custody. Mr. WITIIA M told him that the charge of begging a th, jested him to imprisonment with hard labour for a m e i ,%'r but as he had resisted the officers in the execution of i i 2;:b duty, he was liable to be committed for three months, ",„ 1- .. sentence he should pass ; and, at the expiration of th at , h re r riod, the persons whom he had assaulted could take ° _,,"„ e o proceedings, at the Sessions, against him, which he '— richly deserved. A Frenchman, w h o was found in the streets, attire d 10 woman's apparel, was brought up for further examination. pt Inspector Campbell said that he had taken the defendant before th e F renc h Consul, who had e li c i te d f rom him etoti-ur lie had b een f rom his native count r y not more than ok. days. O n hi s arr i va l i n the metropolis the accused to o lodgings in U n i on - court, H olborn, and he there met IT o some Italian s , w h o i n d uced him to put on female's attire., t ht go out to da nce to t h e i r music. The French Consul thon g" , that the defendant was of weak intellect, and would, if Ile w et discharged, send him home. Mr. WI rira m delivered hi m over to the care of the Fre nch Consul. division, charged e % d ve ,s re ith brought up by a p o li ceman of the fighting GRECIANS.—Paddy O'H a ll oran and Dennis T w inilit and The const a bl e s t a t e d t h at h e found the c most desperate manner i n Broad street, St. Giles's, surrou ncs _. creating prisoners fighting disturbance; ni by three or fur hundred persons, when he took them into ell s tcdy. O'H a ll oran went quietly, but Twining fought and re sisted violently. Mr. WITHAM (to O'Halloran)—What have you to aay O'Halloran—Sure, we were friends 'till he axed me to tie" and I am sorry now; but we've made it up. Mr. WITHAM—How do you get your living ? I am a rammer, your wurtship. Mr. WITHAM— A rammer, what is that? O'Halloran!! knock down the stones in the str ee ts a ft er th e p a vior . l o ' 'cm down. Mr. WITHAM—I suppose you were drunk ? O'Hallor an o - ; Well, then, I must say so, y ou r wurtship ; but I'm a poor b not long in this country. Mr. WITHAM (to Twining)—Pray, what are you ? am a Grecian, your honour, he MA lto ti G gr l r wa e n c ud i r a i n s3h, ? oi pu Oiwffiooenrelsyrh—jpl ( f A l e means th at has just Twining—yes, \ ,7, 1 arrived T i n, day before. Mr. WITHANI—Is that any reason you s h ou ld fi g h t and, t":, t a disturba nce ? T wining —No, hut I didn't know the the counth r y. Mr. WITHAM—I shall fine you five shilli ngs , an d your c camer m a u h g o b i h on s pinion one shilling. —They were then locked up. The NEW FLAT GOLD WATCL.' 7 0 Tie price inwith vertical movement ......... X 7 horizont a l movement, in double biot " ;i cases,t h u e red cases, j ewe ll e d i n four holes, 9 0 Ditto, oiitehdweeg engine-turned well-finished with silver dial .......................................... 9 47# T. COX SAVORY, Worki ng Sil versmith and Jeweller, Cornhill, London (Seven doo rs f rom Graeechurch-street)• na , a N. 13. the Horizontal Co nstruction is particul ar ly reconin le for its sup er i or accuracy. On the 18th i B Ili THS. nst., in 13 eigrave-street Belgrave-Nt.oe, the ja ull of .1. V. Thompson, Esq., of a son. f J, C. On the 21st i ns t. , i n U pper Harley-street, the lady ° Bevan, Esq., of a son. of a . 1 0 . 006 At Shellbrooke Park, on the 21st i ns t,. , the Lady Louts son. MA rtRIED, p othe r° ' On the 21st inst. at Flendon, Middlesex, Thomas - r " late Esq., of the Friars, M Cnmouthshire, to Sarah, daughter of to On the 221 itnt. at Lcatztiton r he w. Petrnan, Esq. ; of the llam. rowcil, EN., of Cl ' :irov-sti:et,, Lincoln's Inn-fields, to Ag ile n da7.7.2.1aer the I.lto b.' Powell, Esq~of L Nathaniel, son s, the DIED. At. Pufney, on Ike 2lst inst., Isabella, wife of Mr. Harpe r , Oli tztlr, aged -11. - d 7 Ithr On the 20zh inst., at liridgencl, Glamorganshire, ag - 3 ' p.!.„ , z ,t., Ls+, 6f the Customs. -..........__ Lon). , :n; Printed and PubHAIM by MEIRDO YOVI Ith Bets I !ri, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in th. of A tki.dle 3 .7.---_Friday, August 24, 1838. I 1